Hello, Here is what happens with most recent zsh snapshot. ./D07multibyte.ztst: starting. Testing multibyte with locale en_US.UTF-8 *** buffer overflow detected ***: ../Src/zsh terminated ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/libc.so.6(__chk_fail+0x41)[0x401552a1] /lib/libc.so.6[0x40154ae8] /lib/libc.so.6(_IO_default_xsputn+0xa7)[0x400e9407] /lib/libc.so.6(_IO_vfprintf+0x1a07)[0x400c4697] /lib/libc.so.6(__vsprintf_chk+0xab)[0x40154b9b] /lib/libc.so.6(__sprintf_chk+0x30)[0x40154ad0] ../Src/zsh[0x80a5a97] ../Src/zsh[0x80a969b] ../Src/zsh(prefork+0x69)[0x80ab309] ../Src/zsh[0x80671f0] ../Src/zsh[0x80692e9] ../Src/zsh[0x80696c9] ../Src/zsh(execlist+0x33a)[0x806a39a] ../Src/zsh(execfor+0x21e)[0x808592e] ../Src/zsh[0x8068442] ../Src/zsh[0x8069574] ../Src/zsh[0x80696c9] ../Src/zsh(execlist+0x33a)[0x806a39a] ../Src/zsh(execode+0x3a)[0x806a65a] ../Src/zsh(bin_eval+0x88)[0x8053e08] ../Src/zsh(execbuiltin+0x5a3)[0x805b733] ../Src/zsh[0x8068e9a] ../Src/zsh[0x80692e9] ../Src/zsh[0x80696c9] ../Src/zsh(execlist+0x33a)[0x806a39a] ../Src/zsh(execode+0x3a)[0x806a65a] ../Src/zsh(runshfunc+0xd1)[0x806a741] ../Src/zsh(doshfunc+0x34e)[0x806aabe] [...]